The Spectator, Volume 1George Atherton Aitken Routledge, 1975 |
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Pagina 246
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arra undisputed blockheads about the town began entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up f polite authors . I shall therefore describe at leng those many arts of false wit , in which a ...
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arra undisputed blockheads about the town began entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up f polite authors . I shall therefore describe at leng those many arts of false wit , in which a ...
Pagina 248
... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
Pagina 262
... acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epigram called ' The Witches ' Prayer ' , that fell into verse when it was read either backward or forward , excepting only that it ...
... acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epigram called ' The Witches ' Prayer ' , that fell into verse when it was read either backward or forward , excepting only that it ...
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